Passed vetting and received email today offering CKP place 7th May and training school date 25th June.
Have already passed CKP external. Gave them a call just before closing. They are aware of CKP pass, just been missed on something. These things happen. They will come back to me on Monday and may be able to bring my training school dates forward.
Thought I would update my post as timelines may help others.
Good luck

Will have to see re dates. If mine takes as long as yours I won't have training dates for a long time. Looks like you have been given approx. 2 months notice to start your CKP. Which is a lot more than I was expecting.
Will be worth the wait.
Have applied for all the North East boroughs.

I understand vetting currently has an approx 8 week delay. Think vetting can take between 2 and 6 months as a rough guide. Out of our control and will take as long as it takes I guess. Hopefully good news soon. Have not contacted them.

Thank you Mbrown.
My brother applied about three years ago and I am waiting until I turn 18 over the summer to apply. I thought once finished a levels I could prep for my written application form if it did have competency section.
Lots of things seemed to have changed and the website is not clear. Just trying to do some forward planning.
Fingers crossed they are still recruiting.
If I get a reply from recruitment I will post on here as might help others.

Query One
The Met website states the initial assessment includes
#1 Registration and Online Eligibility Assesment - personal details
#2 Behavioural Styles Questionnaire - agree or disagree statements on sliding scale
#3 London Factor Assesment - which statements most like you
After this stage it states you will receive the results of all your assessments in Stages 3-5. If you pass, you will be invited to a Day One assessment centre.
My first question is - are stages #1to#3 the only assessments/activity you have to complete or does the Stages 3-5 refer to something else? Has the application with competences been removed?
Query Two
The Met website states the Day One Assesment Centre includes
20 min structured interview - 4 questions about how you dealt with specifuc situation in past
23 min numerical reasoning test - multiple choice maths test
30 min verbal logical reasoning test - multiple choice making sense of specific written info
10 min interactive role-play scenarios - five min prep and five min role-play
My second question is - has the written statement test been removed?
Thank you.

This article prompts more questions than it answers. Depending which article you read from the papers, some state different dates this will start from, ranging from sometime next year to as far in the future as September 2019!
i am interested as a family member is currently doing alevels and will be 18 in the summer. They had intended to do CKP once 18 and then apply for PC in Met if recruiting. If not recruiting then join as a Soecial and get part time job until PC recruitment opens. Not sure what advice to give! They do not want to go to Uni due to cost but would be interested in apprenticeship, but unclear what age and qualification criteria will be.
has anyone seen more details. Could not find anything more mysekf